Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

London-based HSBC, arguably the world's most global bank, recently described speculation that it was planning to shift its headquarters from London to Hong Kong as "presumptuous." After all, HSBC is not proposing to close its British operations. Its full name is, after all, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

Banking 11

Banking Hedge Globalization Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Managers and boards are often pushed by investors, fund managers, and analysts to focus intently on a single measure of success, such as shareholder value or profit, and then they do everything they can to maximize it. Companies should be managed much more holistically. I was once a CEO leading a corporate turnaround.

Metrics 8

Metrics Long-term Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

boss, Ina Drew , the former head of their unit in of the bank's, the Chief Investment Office (CIO); and CEO Jamie Dimon, to whom the CIO reported who oversaw the CIO. Drew quickly retired after the losses, and Iksil and Macris are, according to news reports, leaving the bank.

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

From my advisory work, research, and private discussions with executives and board members of pension funds, pension funds that succeed in keeping politics at bay combine strong governance with deft, often pre-emptive, management of issues that could spark a political backlash. Deft, pre-emptive management. Strong governance.

Politics 8

Politics Hedge Constraint Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

You can make customers provide more rigorous authentication before they make a transaction, or have managers limit distribution of sensitive plans. Almost all companies have to share sensitive data with vendors and channel partners to operate modern supply chains smoothly.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

Many investment banks and hedge funds operate this way, as do some law firms, consulting outfits, and tech titans. The ethos is up-or-out, sink-or-swim, rank-and-yank. It’s a tough environment, but it’s the right environment for talented people who aspire to be superstars. “They are 100 times better.”

Health Care 13

Health Care How To Hedge Environment 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers. For most organizations, this is the least risky option, and a good middle road, despite the fact that many traditional organizations often see digital network operators as threats rather than allies.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

They might impersonate a bank, saying, “Hey, I know you’re about to go and get an operation, don’t forget to transfer some money by clicking here,” or whatever. And then you think, “Well, they know I’m having an operation tomorrow, so they must be a legitimate bank.”

Health Care 8

Health Care Hedge Banking Training 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Counting cash reserves, dividend payments, and stock repurchases, corporate America has had the opportunity to invest nearly $3 trillion in capital since the 2008 Great Recession — more than six times the size of the TARP bank bailout. And so would this election cycle.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Them” were the majority of managers who didn’t get what design was all about in the first place. And with good reason: From Target to Uber, business managers everywhere are starting to understand that the strategic use of design is making a difference in achieving outsized business results. ” Design Strategy'

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

And isn’t lowering costs exactly what managers focused on shareholder value are supposed to be doing? Over the decades, risk management has become a deeply quantitative endeavor. Understanding how to manage reputation risk starts with understanding the elements of reputation. We’d like to propose a solution.

Reputation 8

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Then it wasn’t.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

They may not be like the big conglomerates of the 1960s — you can see how their portfolio of somewhat related business came about — but, in reality, the various divisions and business units do operate completely independently from one another. First, corporate C-suite executives are portfolio managers.

Strategy 8

Strategy P&L Engineering Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But three years after the financial crisis broke, I remain more convinced than ever that the fundamental cure for restoring economic growth and repairing societal trust in business is to deepen our ability to manage companies for the long term. Here again, CEOs can and should manage that process actively.

Long-term 8

Long-term CEO Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

So most executives manage it according to their intuition. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. We saw this play out in retail, banking, telecommunications, and the fast food industry as well. In one hedge fund, the highest performing portfolio managers had higher total motivation.

Motivation 8

Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Even in the most hard-nosed of private equity firms or hedge funds you will find that people align with strategies that mean something to them, that they’re passionate about. Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems. So here’s the money management industry.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Confronting this ambiguity, the pilots appear to have reverted to rote training procedures that likely made the situation worse: they banked into a climb designed to avoid further danger, which also slowed the plane's airspeed and sent it into a stall. Each of these safety features, however, also increases the complexity of the whole.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Hedge System 8

CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Because growth is unpredictable, it’s unwise to bank on a certain set of assumptions. In healthy and aligned organizations, the stated values and operating values are one and the same. Create a one-page document that contains the company’s operating values, vision, and mission. First, define “strategy” and “actions.”

Strategic Planning 78

Strategic Planning Planning Balanced Scorecard Mission Statement 78

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Before I knew it I was presenting the ideas in my book to Steve Black, who at the time headed up investment banking at JP Morgan Chase. By the end of the '80s, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer had realized, through rigorous analysis, that Microsoft needed to abandon its still-struggling new operation system, Windows, because of a memory flaw.

Succession 16

Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code. Insight Center.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. Then banking regulations were imposed.

ROE 12

ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. In our survey of 30 Brazil country managers in October, 20 reported increased revenue growth, despite the country’s dysfunctional, scandal-ridden politics. When it comes to Brazil, the economy is picking up.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8